BAFTA nominations confirm that British people rather enjoyed Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

After politely tolerating America as it whooped and hollered through its endless lists of the year’s best films, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has cleared its throat and humbly delivered its own opinions on who should be eligible to receive this year’s BAFTA Awards—which is the U.K. equivalent to the Oscar, though slightly more dignified, and each trophy comes with a pudding. Naturally, the very British film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy had its strongest showing of the entire season here, with BAFTA nominating it across 11 categories in all for its accurate portrayal of British life as a daily procession of withering glances doled out in drab industrial buildings.

That inherent British love of silence and suppressing emotion also helped Drive score big, though both Ryan Gosling and Albert Brooks were shut out in favor of a Supporting Actress nod for Carey Mulligan, who is far more British. The other big surprise: a Best Actress nomination for Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady, whose much-protested revisionist history was forgiven because she really nailed the voice, and possibly because it wasn’t awful as that Wallis Simpson movie Madonna made. Here’s the complete list of nominees.